Some Moroccans proudly speak of their «kingdom of twelve centuries», tracing statehood back to Idris I in 788 AD. But the story doesn’t begin there. Centuries earlier, the Kingdom of Mauretania rose ...
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IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The RMS Mauretania was a British ...
On this day 110 years ago the mighty Mauretania was launched on the River Tyne. The ship was one of a string of ocean liners built in the years before and after World War I. With their dark hulls, ...
Mauretania was the fastest ship across the Atlantic for more than 20 years, travelling at speeds of up to 27 knots.The Tyne shipyard of Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson built the liner Mauretania for ...
AS THE Second World War loomed, the 35,750-ton luxury liner Mauretania II sailed on her maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York on 17 June 1939. She was constructed at Birkenhead’s famous Cammell ...
The Echo looks back at the majestic Mauretania in her dazzle days as part of a campaign with the Maritime Museum to bring a scale model of the ship home to Liverpool. These pictures show the RMS ...
So that a generation of Cunard publicity for the now scrapped Mauretania should not be wasted, British Board of Trade officials were besought last week for permission to re-name the coastal ...
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